Why do Vietnamese use the Latin alphabet?

Learn about the history and origin of the Vietnamese alphabet.

[richardlong]

My wife who's Vietnamese is glad also because when she moved to London it made it easier for her to learn the English writing system and I glad because London
is where I met her.

[OffGridInvestor]

Your English accent is surprisingly good compared to most Vietnamese I have worked with (almost all southerners). I was always surprised by the Vietnamese writing and when I see it, it's VERY easy for me to know what it's meant to sound like. English is my first language, another heavily modified English with bits missing and with native tribal words called Bislama is my second language, and spanish (latin based) is my third language and hopefully Vietnamese will be my fourth.

[jikitchoy]

I find it really easy to learn from you, good accent and the lesson is short enough for me to focus. Thanks! Got to know you from a friend introduction.

[amyoung]

Wow 🤯… I didn’t realize that the Portuguése has their version way before the French

[gusgama]

Thank you for the info! 🙂
Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

[rafarubio]

Cam on rat nhieu!
Thanks for helping us to try to learn VN unless "It thoi" ☺️

[fatimanuelology]

Great Video! I would have liked for you to show us how the vietnamese script looked like before latinization, because it is really interesting. Thanks! :)

[neminier]

Thank you for sharing! I have been curious about the history behind this!

[花の花]

Very good sister
I really want to learn Vietnamese from you
Thank you very much for your teaching

[tareasytrabajosadolfoarian]

In the biography of Ho Chi Minh say that agree With the latin alphabet also the large text books to teach include the easy to adapt press and typewriters to Propaganda, news papers and books to extent the ideology, that make more faster alphabetize in the villages

[skycaptain]

My question is why do vietnamese people all have amazing handwriting?

[HistoriaenCeluloide]

¿Are there Calligraphy Competitions in Vietnam? I saw the caligraphy in english from a 9 year old nepalese girl which is considered the most beautiful in the world

[juandalisay]

Nice info. But I wonder why De Rhodes used the letters d and r for the Vietnamese z sound, and g for the Vietnamese y sound. He could've just used z for d, d for đ, and y for g.

[Perionian]

Wow, thanks for explaining! I was curious about this for a long time.
But doesn't having a phonetic writing system lead to ambiguity and confusion if there are different words that sound exactly the same? Or does each word have a unique sound?
It'll be so hard to learn Chinese if Western countries colonised China, got rid of Chinese characters and only used Ping Yin

[muhammadisaac]

Exactly Latinised makes any language easy to understand especially for foreigner ❤️❤️

Thank you so much, ma'am
Respect and love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩

[ac]

It may be worth considering that literacy rate and latinization aren’t always connected. For example, the French heavily endorsed latinization in education where before there really was not much incentive for people to learn chu nom or enough teachers to teach it while they did other stuff.

After all, why tf would an esteemed court official take the time out of his day to teach an impoverished peasant how to write for little monetary gain, when his uncle’s favorite nephew needed his tutelage on the calligraphy exam section?

Missionaries and French instructors on the other hand have nothing to do except teach, not to mention counter examples of illiteracy like Mandarin, Cantonese, and whatever monosyllabic language in Asia.
In the end, if we wanted pure practicality as a society, then we’d all be speaking Toki Pona in hangul script, taking at most a couple years before literally everyone in the world spoke the same language.

[LongQuach-ql]

1:45 Hold your horses.

Language is a real thing.

What you call "Chinese domination", other people call "Chinese heritage".

[jiaweigu]

Hi there I have a question,
Are the Vietnamese words simply pronunciation or it has roots like English words?

[LongQuach-ql]

1:59 Again, you tell the story from one side of the story. The Yang side, what about the Yin side?

What is the BAD thing about romanization?

Japan still kept Kanji, and they are a great people.

[zhiqianwen]

Because they were colonized by the French